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Prabhupāda: And still, they cannot assimilate it, so much so-called civilized men, they cannot understand even the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.13), that there is transmigration of the soul, these rascals. And who is tribal chief?
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And still, they cannot assimilate it, so much so-called civilized men, they cannot understand even the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]), that there is transmigration of the soul, these rascals. And who is tribal chief?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I just . . . I read that recently in an anthropology book, that 3000 B.C., means five thousand years ago, everyone was living in . . . especially in this part of the world, people were simply living in caves.
 
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: English propaganda.
 
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
 
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: English propaganda.
 
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They had very crude tools for making their things. Practically they were all like animals.
 
Prabhupāda: So how this literature came?
 
Hari-śauri: Well, they say that it's not older than 1,000, 1,500 years old.
 
Prabhupāda: One thousand . . . but where are other literatures like that, 1,500 years, in Europe and other places?
 
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No such thing.
 
Prabhupāda: So only the literatures were here in India?
 
Pañcadravida: No, they have them. They also have mythology in Greece, and Roman mythology too.
 
Prabhupāda: Mythology maybe, but so purposeful verses, where is in other country?
 
Pañcadravida: Nowhere.
 
Prabhupāda: Eh?
 
Balavanta: Bhagavad-gītā's philosophy . . .
 
Prabhupāda: Yes.
 
Pañcadravida: That they can't match anywhere.
 
Prabhupāda: Then?
 
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How can a caveman make it, then?
 
Prabhupāda: Yes.
 
Trivikrama: Each verse, so . . .
 
Prabhupāda: Each rich . . . is it impossible to compose verses by the cavemen? How foolish they are. Not only that, in Mahābhārata there are 100,000 verses. In Bhāgavata, there are 18,000 verses. In the Purāṇas . . . where is such rich literature? If they were cavemen, wherefrom this literature came?
 
Satsvarūpa: They also said Kṛṣṇa was a tribal chief. But how could He speak such philosophy?
 
Prabhupāda: How rascal they are.
 
Pañcadravida: There are a few flaws in the theory. (laughter)
 
Prabhupāda: The best class of men, the Āryans, and they were worshiping a tribal chief. And what was Arjuna? He was also a tribal chief? Arjuna said that, "I become Your disciple." So what was he, that he is submitting to a tribal chief? Śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7 (1972)|BG 2.7]]). And He's teaching Bhagavad-gītā?
 
Lokanātha: Which is being read after five thousand years.
 
Prabhupāda: And still, they cannot assimilate it, so much so-called civilized men, they cannot understand even the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.3]]), that there is transmigration of the soul, these rascals. And who is tribal chief?
 
Haṁsadūta: Just to master the language takes twelve years.
 
Prabhupāda: Yes.
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Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: And still, they cannot assimilate it, so much so-called civilized men, they cannot understand even the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.13), that there is transmigration of the soul, these rascals. And who is tribal chief?

760318 - Morning Walk - Mayapur

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I just . . . I read that recently in an anthropology book, that 3000 B.C., means five thousand years ago, everyone was living in . . . especially in this part of the world, people were simply living in caves.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: English propaganda.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: English propaganda.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They had very crude tools for making their things. Practically they were all like animals.

Prabhupāda: So how this literature came?

Hari-śauri: Well, they say that it's not older than 1,000, 1,500 years old.

Prabhupāda: One thousand . . . but where are other literatures like that, 1,500 years, in Europe and other places?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No such thing.

Prabhupāda: So only the literatures were here in India?

Pañcadravida: No, they have them. They also have mythology in Greece, and Roman mythology too.

Prabhupāda: Mythology maybe, but so purposeful verses, where is in other country?

Pañcadravida: Nowhere.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Balavanta: Bhagavad-gītā's philosophy . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Pañcadravida: That they can't match anywhere.

Prabhupāda: Then?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How can a caveman make it, then?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Trivikrama: Each verse, so . . .

Prabhupāda: Each rich . . . is it impossible to compose verses by the cavemen? How foolish they are. Not only that, in Mahābhārata there are 100,000 verses. In Bhāgavata, there are 18,000 verses. In the Purāṇas . . . where is such rich literature? If they were cavemen, wherefrom this literature came?

Satsvarūpa: They also said Kṛṣṇa was a tribal chief. But how could He speak such philosophy?

Prabhupāda: How rascal they are.

Pañcadravida: There are a few flaws in the theory. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: The best class of men, the Āryans, and they were worshiping a tribal chief. And what was Arjuna? He was also a tribal chief? Arjuna said that, "I become Your disciple." So what was he, that he is submitting to a tribal chief? Śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam (BG 2.7). And He's teaching Bhagavad-gītā?

Lokanātha: Which is being read after five thousand years.

Prabhupāda: And still, they cannot assimilate it, so much so-called civilized men, they cannot understand even the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.3), that there is transmigration of the soul, these rascals. And who is tribal chief?

Haṁsadūta: Just to master the language takes twelve years.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

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